Libros de

Humanoffon

¿está Internet cambiándonos como seres humanos?

El nuevo mundo digital ha transformado nuestra vida en muchos aspectos y este cambio nos impulsa a aprender a vivir entre dos mundos, el online y el offline. Este concepto es esencial, puesto que supone el avance de un hombre, el nuevo «Humanoffon», que consigue ...

Mindhunter

cazador de mentes

Es la historia, contada por él mismo, de John Douglas, el hombre que revolucionó las técnicas para estudiar las mentes de los criminales en serie. Durante veinticinco años como agente especial del FBI, Douglas contribuyó a resolver los casos más difíciles, con aciertos asombrosos, como ...

Los límites del territorio y los territorios sin límites

historia y actualidad de los faceros navarros limítrofes con Álava

Este trabajo de investigación pretende ofrecer un estudio de la problemática jurídica surgida en torno a la delimitación de territorios en Navarra abordando dos cuestiones. Por una parte, se examina la existencia actual de territorios no adscritos a ningún municipio, con el fin de ofrecer ...

Calidad, transparencia y ética pública

Aunque seguimos hablando de ello hoy en día, casi siempre es para cuestionar la vigencia de la calidad como herramienta de apoyo a una Administración que quiere ser moderna, útil, responsable y generadora de bien público, donde el libre ejercicio de derechos fundamentales de los ...

The right to have rights

Sixty years ago, the political theorist Hannah Arendt, an exiled Jew deprived of her German citizenship, observed that before people can enjoy any of the "inalienable" Rights of Man-before there can be any specific rights to education, work, voting, and so on-there must first be ...

The aesthetics and ethics of copying

The Aesthetics and Ethics of Copying responds to the rapidly changing attitudes towards the use of another's ideas, styles, and artworks. With advances in technology making the copying of artworks and other artefacts exponentially easier, questions of copying no longer focus on the problems ...

Finance in America

an unfinished story

The economic crisis of 2008 led to an unprecedented focus on the world of high finance-and revealed it to be far more arcane and influential than most people could ever have imagined. Any hope of avoiding future crises, it's clear, rest on understanding finance ...

Inequality

what can be done?

Inequality is one of our most urgent social problems. Curbed in the decades after World War II, it has recently returned with a vengeance. We all know the scale of the problem?talk about the 99% and the 1% is entrenched in public debate?but ...

Wall Streeters

the creators and corruptors of american finance

The 2008 financial collapse, the expansion of corporate and private wealth, the influence of money in politics—many of Wall Street's contemporary trends can be traced back to the work of fourteen critical figures who wrote, and occasionally broke, the rules of American finance ...

Cadáver exquisito

El Premio Clarín 2017 fue otorgado a esta novela mayor, una sólida y escalofriante pesadilla futurista en la que el canibalismo es legitimado en gran parte del mundo a causa de un virus que afecta a los animales y resulta mortal para los seres humanos ...

Andalucía y reforma constitucional

"Andalucía y reforma constitucional" no solo realiza un repaso histórico de los episodios andaluces de la transición, hoy pasto del olvido cuando no de la manipulación. Rubén Pérez Trujillano disecciona la mutación experimentada por el Estado autonómico, llamando la atención sobre algunas malas prácticas del ...

A straightforward guide to probate and the Law

A Straightforward Guide to Probate and the Law, Revised Edition, is a concise and informative guide to all the processes that underpin probate and the obtaining of probate. The book is designed exclusively for anyone who is either a family member or who is acting ...

Imagining the future of climate change

world-making through science fiction and activism

From the 1960s to the present, activists, artists, and science fiction writers have imagined the consequences of climate change and its impacts on our future. Authors such as Octavia Butler and Leslie Marmon Silko, movie directors such as Bong Joon-Ho, and creators of digital media ...

A user's guide to Copyright

A User's Guide to Copyright, Seventh Edition is long established as one of the key texts in the field. Renowned for its practical, user-friendly and authoritative approach and for its practical application to the main copyright using industries, the book is considered essential reading ...

The political power of global corporations

We have long been told that corporations rule the world, their interests seemingly taking precedence over states and their citizens. Yet, while states, civil society, and international organizations are well drawn in terms of their institutions, ideologies, and functions, the world's global corporations are ...

Unequal gains

american growth and inequality since 1700

Unequal Gains offers a radically new understanding of the economic evolution of the United States, providing a complete picture of the uneven progress of America from colonial times to today. While other economic historians base their accounts on American wealth, Peter Lindert and Jeffrey Williamson ...

Reputation

what it is and why it matters

Reputation touches almost everything, guiding our behavior and choices in countless ways. But it is also shrouded in mystery. Why is it so powerful when the criteria by which people and things are defined as good or bad often appear to be arbitrary? Why do ...

Measuring tomorrow

accounting for well-being, resilience, and sustainability in the Twenty-First Century

Never before in human history have we produced so much data, and this empirical revolution has shaped economic research and policy profoundly. But are we measuring, and thus managing, the right things-those that will help us solve the real social, economic, political, and environmental challenges ...

Clashing over commerce

a history of US Trade Policy

Should the United States be open to commerce with other countries, or should it protect domestic industries from foreign competition? This question has been the source of bitter political conflict throughout American history. Such conflict was inevitable, James Madison argued in The Federalist Papers, because ...

Theory and practice in policy analysis

including applications in science and technology

Many books instruct readers on how to use the tools of policy analysis. This book is different. Its primary focus is on helping readers to look critically at the strengths, limitations, and the underlying assumptions analysts make when they use standard tools or problem framings ...